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English is not my first language so if you think I’ve made a word up, I probably have

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I almost can’t believe it, but Google Tasks is finally kind of good (www.theverge.com)

For years, Google’s to-do list app Tasks was poorly integrated and underdeveloped. Recently, Google has combined all their reminder products into a single Google Tasks app that is accessible across Google products. While still lacking some advanced features, Google Tasks’ simplicity and integration make it easy to add tasks...

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I use it because I haven’t yet found any alternative that works as well. Any recommendations?

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Any features you think google tasks lacks? Do you use the free or the paid version of todoist?

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Thanks! I didn’t know about it. I like that is open source. I’d have to look into how to sync it with my computer.

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Thanks! I’ll look into it.

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Anybody else really sensitive about their plants dying? I know they're not sentient, but still...

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I like your reasoning. This was absolutely my fault though, since I left it outside in 40°C degree weather (+100°F for Americans) knowing I wouldn't come back in a few days. I thought it would fare well since it's supposed to be a desert plant and I'd read they don't need to be watered each day. Screw that, from then on I water my succulents everyday in the summer, the weather here is brutal 😭

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I'm lucky my plants never get sick from any disease / pests nor do bunnies feed on them. If they die, it's most likely from my incompetence. We do get the occasional hail storm tho

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Omg, what did you do with so many tomatoes?

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Well then ur neighbors are so lucky because those look really good. I imagine they taste far better than any you can find at the store

What do you eat in the morning?

I've never been a breakfast person, and I don't wake up hungry. I used to go a few hours without eating anything and then have a breakfast of two scrambled eggs, 1/2 cup of brown rice, and a sliced avocado with some salt or soy sauce. That's a very tasty and healthy breakfast, but I get hungry again within a couple of hours....

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I'm southern european and some of these answers are giving me culture shock... Normally, a coffee would get me through the day until lunch and, if I'm especially hungry, I'll eat some pastries too. But the thought of having to eat plenty of eggs or anything that involves cooking so soon after waking up is giving me upset stomach. I realize this may not be healthiest option tho

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Here lunch is our biggest meal of the day and usually around 2 or 3 pm. Most people will have lunch at home, even if they have to go back to work later and many eat a small meal between "breakfast" and lunch. But most people either won't eat anything for what you'd call breakfast or just have some coffee and toast/pastries. I really don't know anybody who wakes up and immediately starts cooking.

All programs should tell you where they store config files (utcc.utoronto.ca)

I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can't tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.

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Seriously, I've lost so muuuuch time just trying to find where some random program decides to store its config files. It sometimes takes me more time than actually "doing the config"

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I'm clearly not an expert in the matter and perhaps this is just my wishful? thinking.

I feel like any type of scientific knowledge humanity has acquired shouldn't be "owned" by any individual / entity and subsequently only benefit an -often small- portion of society. For example, it baffles me how some medications take years and years -usually until the patents expire- to become available to the majority of the patients that need them. I get that companies need a return on their investments. But imo that should never come at the cost of any person's life or health. Like, aside from production costs, the costs of researching a given drug are fixed. So, it's not like the more people that use it takes money out of their pockets somehow. Logically, it should be the other way around.

Idk, it just doesn't make sense to me when the knowledge already exists and people aren't able to make use of it until much later because apparently that's the only way someone's able to make a profit in this current system? Maybe copyright sucks?

What do y'all think?

Edit: I was just made aware from reading the other comments that patents / copyright are actually two distinct forms of IP that serve different purposes. So yeah, definitely not an expert. Not deleting bc I still stand by what I said, but my comment doesn't really answer the question at hand.

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It’s simply not right that children couldnt (up to 2015) sing Happy Birthday at a party without paying the rights holder for the tune.

what ??!?

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Thanks for explaining.

However, someone was trying to claim they owned the copyright to that song

Whoa, that's insane to me as a non-American. I mean, the song is even sung all around the world in different languages. Did they claim the rights to the melody, lyrics, or... 😭?

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Yeah, I don't care whose pockets it hurts, but no one should have to worry about not being able to access a life-saving medication that already exits. Sorry you have to go through this

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If I’m sitting at home, I can sing whatever song I want.

Yeah, I think if that wasn't the case, we'd have bigger issues to discuss in this thread.

Thanks for the insight though. Really interesting to learn as someone who consumes and enjoys tons of music.

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Living for the "be(e)". Already answered btw 🫶

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I think it may have taken me a bit longer to write than most people bc English is not my first language and I tend to double and triple-check everything. But I think it was worth it, and it's for the greater good - lessening the work of the admins

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Me neither......

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I mean, I feel like I'd get significantly more nervous in an actual interview... I think the admins were having some trouble approving new accounts, hopefully they'll have resolved it by now.

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Hold on. Does instagram actually make you take a photo of yourself to sign up now? lol And some people complaining about having to answer three questions...

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hey, cool username!

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I haven't tried any of the apps for Android, but I'm using the website from my phone's browser (Firefox Android) and so far so good. Similar user experience to browsing the web on desktop

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